How to clip without clipview?

[MarciaB]

Here's an example of a flash animation where the 2006 and 2007 numbers appear on the right and disappear on the left. I don't want the two rectangles on both sides, so what to do without the clipview option?

[Ross Macintosh]

Why not just use clipview? It does work...
I used it in the watercolour selfportrait swf I posted in another thread. I used it like this: the object I wanted to use was named before I used it as the inside object in a clipview. In my example I did not name the clipview group. In one frame was the named object; in the next frame was the clipview where I had adjusted the size of the inside object. When run, the effect was that the object zoomed.

Regards, Ross

[MarciaB]

Wow, that's certainly a beautiful selfportrait/animation! Thanks Ross!
For a very obscure reason I thought clipview was not possible in a flash animation.. Must have mixed things up Meanwhile I figured it out:

[Ross Macintosh]

Wow, that's certainly a beautiful selfportrait/animation!

Thanks! It's easy when you have such a handsome subject.
The watercolour was made in Xara Xtreme.

Regards, Ross

[WolfMoonHP]

Marcia...

I really like the look of the New Year booting out the old! Clever and well executed.

Ross...Is it still considered vanity if it is true?
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Will

[WolfMoonHP]

Marcia, I ran your motto:

Vouloir c'est pouvoir
ou bien
Savoir, c'est pouvoir

through Google translator, the French to English interpreter, and figured you would get a laugh out of the result:

"To want it is canto be able or To know, it is canto be able"

I don't even speak French, but I think I could do better than that!

[MarciaB]

LOL ! These translaters are really hilarious, I know!
In good English they mean : 'Where there's a will there's a way' and
'Knowledge is power'. In French 'pouvoir' means both 'be able' and 'power'.
Maybe I change my signature, because now I read them in English, they seam a bit 'bumptious' and 'ornate', don't you think? (I looked up these words in my dictionary, looking for a word like 'blown up')

Thanks for the compliment for the little animation I can't stop imagining things that can be done in XPro, like a box of rice falling and the rice spilling out (pfff) or a drop of wine dripping down a table edge while the glass is rolling on it...etc etc

[WolfMoonHP]

I feel proud of myself, Marcia...I'd actually pretty much figured it out...but the translator was really off!

I'm sure you heard of the old story of a computer translator taking the English expression, "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weakk," and translating it into Russian, then taking the Russian and translating it back into English.

The result came back as "The vodka is good but the meat is rotten."
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Will